闌

See also 阑

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 門 (“door”) + 柬

Han character

闌 (radical 169 門+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 日弓木田火 (ANDWF), four-corner 7790₆)

1. door screen
2. railing fence

Derived characters

• 瀾, 蘭, 攔, 欄, 爛, 讕, 籣, 𨷻

References

• KangXi: page 1339, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41433
• Dae Jaweon: page 1844, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4307, character 11
• Unihan data for U+95CC

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Cantonese

Hanzi

闌 (simplified 阑, Yale laan4)

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Japanese

Kanji

闌

Readings

• On: らん (ran)
• Kun: てすり (tesuri), さえぎる (saegiru), たけなわ (takenawa)

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Korean

Hanja

闌 (hangeul 란>난, revised ran>nan, McCune-Reischauer ran>nan, Yale lan>nan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

闌 (simplified 阑, pinyin lán (lan2), làn (lan4), Wade-Giles lan², lan⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

闌 (lan, làn)